Menander

Born: 342 BC
Died: 292 BC.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Dramatist, Playwrights, Poets


Greek comic dramatist

 

wrote plays "Epiptrepontes", "Perikeiromene", "Dyskolos"

Page last updated: 1:46pm, 25th Jul '06

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Menander, The Plays and Fragments (Oxford World's Classics)
by Menander (Paperback - Jul 18, 2002)
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Classical Comedy (Penguin Classics)
by Aristophanes and Menander and Plautus and Terence (Paperback - May 29, 2007)
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Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Menander (Paperback - Jan 29, 1998)
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the...

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Menander's Dyskolos (Or the Man Who Didn't Like People)
(Pamphlet - Aug 29, 1960)
This translation is frankly intended for stage production. I have taken Menanders text, which is written in a very loose iambic metre, six feet to the line, and tried to turn it into modern English...
The Complete Greek Drama (All the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations) Volumes 1&2
by Jr., edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill (Hardcover - Aug 29, 2008)
Reproducing Athens: Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City
by Susan Lape (Hardcover - Nov 24, 2003)
Reproducing Athensexamines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial...
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